Peer Reviewed Articles

Historically, the scientific study of human sexuality has involved questionnaires, questionnaire-structured interviews, laboratory and electronic observation and recording techniques, and the ethological study of other species. Although such methods provide normative data on sexuality, the more subtle aspect-eros, the lived experience is often beyond their reach.

In this and the next two issues of Sutra Journal, Dr. Stuart Sovatsky discusses the nature and the impact of the Scientia Sexualis, the sex-desire-centric ‘liberated sexuality’ based in Freudian theories and supported by modern birth control methods, which has also appropriated Indic Ars Eroticas of Kundalini-Tantra and Hatha Yoga in Scientia modes of ‘neo-tantra’ and ‘neo-yoga’.

In this and the next issue of Sutra Journal, Dr. Stuart Sovatsky continues a discussion on the nature and the impact of the Scientia Sexualis, the sex-desire-centric ‘liberated sexuality’ based in Freudian theories and supported by modern birth control methods, which has also appropriated Indic Ars Eroticas of Kundalini-Tantra and Hatha Yoga in Scientia modes of ‘neo-tantra’ and ‘neo-yoga’.

The nature and power of Ars Erotica itself is rooted in a lifelong ‘perineum-to-pineal’ spinal puberty of ‘profound pleasures’, tied to a sacred inner development, as seen in the ‘liberations’ noted in the Dharma traditions of Indian Kundalini-Tantra and in charismatic ‘being moved’ spiritual traditions.

As a multi-lingual, myriad-details-ferreting yoga historian, David Gordon White possesses a variety of these avandhana skills, perhaps even as a ―sacred worshiper‖ who reverentially considers his readers and colleagues as truth-loving Gods themselves.‖

Drawing from Bhakti's Psychology of Divine Mother Worship and existentialism, I consider consciousness as Divine Mother, as infinitely creative light of sentience congruent with eternal impermanence. I examine infantile " separation anxiety " as, in part, an initiatory spiritual experience into the infinity of consciousness and its congruence with eternal time deified as Mother Kali, the awesome/terrifying Creatrix of endless duration itself. Description goes here

This paper attempts to correct the unwitting reliance of much transpersonal psychology upon Indian texts that were indigenously specific to sannyasins (non householder, monastics). This includes teachings from Advaita Vedanta, yoga, and many Buddhist schools on releasement from desire, the diminishing role of the ego, guardedness toward “the mellow-drama” of “worldly” life (as Ram Dass famously cast relational involvements).

Succinctly stated in this paper kundalini is considered as the developmental force that unfolds humans to their fullest physio-spiritual maturity! Description goes here

In sanctifying DNA as no mere molecule but as a potentially awesome experience and relating it to the Tao, Timothy Leary ascends far beyond simple analogy-making. In Psychedelic Prayers, as in all his works, he champions that the sparkle of awe is its own most worthy research discovery; without its wondrous quiverings during any looking or researching, we are truly without a prayer.

Physics describes a “unified field” of time, space, energy, and matter where this visible realm is but one-fourth the whole universe.

In Puri, India, each summer for thousands of years, an idol of Jagannatha Krishn as Lord of the Universe) that purportedly bears the tooth-relic of Buddha is installed onto a wooden cart three stories tall and weighing some sixty-five tons which is then drawn through the streets for three days as millions ecstatically cheer it by.